Label: Columbia / Legacy.
Release Date: May 12, 2017.
Recording Time: 315 minutes.
Release Info: Compilation, #64178.
American Epic AMPC451 (US 2017).
"American Epic: The Collection gathers 100 of these original recordings from the 1920s and 1930s in one five-disc set, restored to unprecedented levels of sonic fidelity. For this box set, compiled by Director Bernard MacMahon, engineer Nicholas Bergh refined a transfer process using a mix of both modern and vintage equipment in order to extract the remarkable resolution from the records that is often missed."
Credits: Garfield Akers - primary artist; Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - primary artist; The Aloha Serenaders - Featured Artist; Amadie Breaux - primary artist; Amédé Ardoin - primary artist; Clarence Ashley - primary artist; Banjo Joe - primary artist; Barbecue Bob - primary artist; Andrew & Jim Baxter - primary artist; The Beale Street Sheiks - primary artist; The Bently Boys - primary artist; Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band - primary artist; Blind Blake - primary artist; Dock Boggs - primary artist; Borinquenos - primary artist; Cleoma Breaux - primary artist; Ophy Breaux - primary artist; Sol K. Bright - primary artist; Big Bill Broonzy - primary artist; Richard Rabbit Brown - primary artist; Willie Brown - primary artist; Bumble Bee Slim - primary artist; Elder J.E. Burch - primary artist; Burnett & Rutherford - primary artist; Cannon's Jug Stompers - primary artist; Guty Cardenas - primary artist; The Carolina Tar Heels - primary artist; The Carter Family - primary artist; Jaybird Coleman - primary artist; Sam Collins - primary artist; Cuarteto Flores - primary artist; Julius Daniels - primary artist; Blind Willie Davis - primary artist; Mattie Delaney - primary artist; The Dixieland Jug Blowers - primary artist; Joswell Dupuis - primary artist; Sleepy John Estes - primary artist; Joseph Falcon - Featured Artist, primary artist; Frenchy's String Band - primary artist; Columbus Frugé - primary artist; Blind Uncle Gaspard - primary artist; J.M. Gates - primary artist; Golden Melody Boys - primary artist; Roosevelt Graves and Brother - primary artist; Lane Hardin - primary artist; Eddie Head and His Family - primary artist; Hopi Indian Chanters - primary artist; Son House - primary artist; Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers - primary artist; Mississippi John Hurt - primary artist; Frank Hutchison - primary artist; Jim Jackson - primary artist; Skip James - primary artist; Blind Lemon Jefferson - primary artist; Blind Willie Johnson - primary artist; Earl Johnson's Clodhoppers - primary artist; Robert Johnson - primary artist; Tommy Johnson - primary artist; Dick Justice - primary artist; Alfred G. Karnes - primary artist; Buell Kazee - primary artist; Delma Lachney - primary artist; Lead Belly - primary artist; Bascom Lamar Lunsford - primary artist; Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers - primary artist; Los Madrugadores - primary artist; Dennis McGee - primary artist; Rev. F.W. McGee - primary artist; Blind Willie McTell - primary artist; Memphis Jug Band - primary artist; Memphis Minnie - primary artist; Lydia Mendoza - primary artist; Mike Hanapi & The Ilima Islanders - primary artist; Emmett Miller - primary artist; Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers - primary artist; Mississippi Sheiks - primary artist; Bartmon Montet - primary artist; William Moore - primary artist; Nelstone's Hawaiians - primary artist; J.P. Nestor - primary artist; Charley Patton - primary artist; Washington Phillips - primary artist; Charlie Poole - primary artist; Ma Rainey - primary artist; Don Richardson - primary artist; Eck Robertson - primary artist; Jimmie Rodgers - primary artist; Seven Foot Dilly & His Dill Pickles - primary artist; Sol Hoopii And His Novelty Quartette - primary artist; Charlie Spand - primary artist; Uncle Bunt Stephens - primary artist; Frank Stokes - primary artist; Ernest V. Stoneman - primary artist; The Stripling Brothers - primary artist; The Tenneva Ramblers - primary artist; The Two Poor Boys - primary artist; Henry Thomas - primary artist; Truett & George - primary artist; Willie Walker - primary artist; Weems String Band - primary artist; Whistler & His Jug Band - primary artist; Bukka White - primary artist; Geeshie Wiley - primary artist; Robert Wilkins - primary artist; Williamson Bros & Curry - primary artist.
Tracks, Disc 1: 1) The Coo Coo Bird (The Cuckoo) - Clarence Ashley; 2) On the Road Again - Memphis Jug Band; 3) The Panama Limited - Bukka White; 4) Indian War Whoop - Hoyt Ming and His Pep Steppers; 5) 'Tain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Pt. 1 - Frank Stokes; 6) K.C. Railroad Blues - Andrew & Jim Baxter; 7) I Am Bound for the Promised Land - Alfred G. Karnes; 8) Cottonfield Blues, Pt. 2 - Garfield Akers; 9) I Wish I Was a Mole In the Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford; 10) Down On Penny's Farm - Bentley Boys; 11) Foldin' Bed - Whistler's Jug Band; 12) Greenback Dollar - Weems String Band; 13) Tallahatchie River Blues - Mattie Delaney; 14) Walk Right In - Cannon's Jug Stompers; 15) Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow - The Carter Family; 16) Old Dog Blue - Jim Jackson; 17) Bayou Teche - Columbus Fruge; 18) Cool Drink of Water Blues - Tommy Johnson; 19) Train On the Island - J.P. Nestor.
Tracks, Disc 2: 1) My Heart Keeps Singing - Elder J.E. Burch; 2) Ninety-Nine Year Blues - Julius Daniels; 3) I Get My Whiskey From Rockingham - Earl Johnson and his Clodhoppers; 4) Death's Black Train Is Coming - Rev. J. M. Gates; 5) Waiting for a Train - Jimmie Rodgers; 6) Darling, Where Have You Been So Long? - Tenneva Ramblers; 7) Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers; 8) Ma Blond Est Partie - Amadie Breaux, Ophey Breaux & Cleoma Breaux; 9) Peg and Awl - Carolina Tar Heels; 10) Chocolate to the Bone - Barbecue Bob; 11) Down On Me - Eddie Head and Family; 12) Prenez Courage - Cleoma Breaux with Joseph Falcon and Ophy Breaux; 13) Pickin' Off Peanuts - Dilly and his Dill Pickles; 14) Just Because - Nelstone's Hawaiians; 15) Dupree Blues - Willie Walker; 16) Ladies On the Steamboat - Burnett & Rutherford; 17) Mamma, 'Tain't Long Fo' Day - Blind Willie McTell.
Tracks, Disc 3: 1) Cecilia - Cuarteto Flores; 2) La Coquetera - Los Borinquenos; 3) Coconito - Guty Cárdenas Y Lencho; 4) Lovesick Blues - Emmett Miller; 5) Long Tall Mama - Big Bill Broonzy; 6) John Henry Blues - Two Poor Boys; 7) Mr. Tom Hughes' Town - Lead Belly; 8) Louis Collins - Mississippi John Hurt; 9) I Am The Light of the World - Blind Gary Davis; 10) Fifty Miles of Elbow Room - Rev. F.W. McGee; 11) Chant of the Eagle Dance - Hopi Indian Chanters; 12) Hilo Hula - Mike Hanapi & The Ilima Islanders; 13) If The River Was Whiskey - Charlie Poole; 14) Stackalee - Frank Hutchison; 15) The Wreck of the '97 - Ernest Stoneman; 16) Faded Coat of Blue - Buell Kazee; 17) Country Blues - Dock Boggs; 18) Sail Away Ladies - Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers; 19) Sail Away Lady - Uncle Bunt Stephens; 20) Sally Gooden - Eck Robertson; 21) Arkansas Traveller - Don Richardson.
Tracks, Disc 4: 1) Hard Time Blues - Lane Hardin; 2) Down the Dirt Road Blues - Charley Patton; 3) Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home - Banjo Joe; 4) Hastings Street - Blind Blake & Charlie Spand; 5) See That My Grave's Kept Clean - Blind Lemon Jefferson; 6) Gonna Have 'Lasses In the Morning - Golden Melody Boys; 7) New Orleans Stop Time - Memphis Minnie & Bumblebee Slim; 8) Prove It On Me Blues - Ma Rainey; 9) Gonne Die with My Hammer in My Hand - Williamson Brothers & Curry; 10) Last Kind Words Blues - Geeshie Wiley; 11) Banjoreno - Dixieland Jug Blowers; 12) It's a Good Thing - Beale Street Sheiks; 13) Trust In God and Do the Right - Blind Willie Davis; 14) Someday Baby Blues - Sleepy John Estes; 15) Lonesome Road Blues - Sam Collins; 16) Future Blues - Willie Brown; 17) Bull Doze Blues - Henry Thomas; 18) Brown Skin Gal (Down the Lane) - Massey Family; 19) Henry Lee aka Young Hunting - Dick Justice; 20) Old Country Rock - William Moore; 21) La Danseuse - Delma Lachney & Blind Uncle Gaspard; 22) My Black Mama, Pt. 1 & 2 - Son House; 23) Cypress Grove Blues - Skip James.
Tracks, Disc 5: 1) Cross Road Blues - Robert Johnson; 2) Mal Hombre - Lydia Mendoza; 3) Sunshine Special - Frenchy's String Band; 4) Old Jim Canan's - Robert Wilkins; 5) Les Blues De Voyage - Amédé Ardoin & Dennis McGee; 6) The Lost Child - Stripling Brothers; 7) I'm Gonna Cross the River Jordan Some of These Days - Jaybird Coleman; 8) Tomi Tomi - Sol K. Bright with The Aloha Serenaders; 9) Sittin' On Top of the World - Mississippi Sheiks; 10) James Alley Blues - Richard Rabbit Brown; 11) The Indian Tom Tom - Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band; 12) Blues In a Bottle - Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers; 13) Je Me Suis En Alle - Bartmont Montet & Joswell Dupuis; 14) Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson; 15) E Mama Ea - Sol Hoopii & His Novelty Quartette; 16) Ghost Dance - Truett & George; 17) Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) - Roosevelt Graves & Brother; 18) Allons A Lafayette - Joseph Falcon; 19) Corrido De Joaquin Murrieta, Pt. 1 & 2 - Los Madrugadores; 20) Denomination Blues (Part 1 & 2) - Washington Phillips.